News, articles and events on youth employment
January 2022
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The 12th Academy on the Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 8: SSE: youth, education and new skills
31 January 2022
November 2021
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Youth unemployment in Thailand hits new highs due to COVID-19
23 November 2021
ILO assessment of the Thai labour market finds high levels of joblessness among young workers due to pandemic restrictions.
August 2021
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Young female entrepreneur strives to transform the medical sector in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
12 August 2021
Nasreen Hassan, who recently took part in ILO’s Start Your Business (SYB) training programme, explains how her business idea to advance medical engineering can change lives and create employment in Iraq.
July 2021
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The European Commission and the ILO join forces to support young people
18 July 2021
A new EC/ILO Technical Assistance Facility set up to pursue youth employment in the Western Balkans.
May 2021
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Decent Jobs for Youth & Generation Unlimited Launch New Knowledge Facility, YouthForesight
04 May 2021
YouthForesight will serve as a one-stop shop providing curated publications, databases, tools and multimedia resources to support evidence-based action on young people’s education and skilling, employment, entrepreneurship, and engagement.
April 2021
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Malawi’s Ministry of Labour pledges to accelerate efforts for the eradication of child labour
01 April 2021
The Deputy Minister of Labour, Malawi, Honourable Vera Kamtukule has joined the African Union and its Member States, the International Labour Organization (ILO), and other stakeholders in adding her voice in pursuit of the global target to eliminate child labour in all its forms by 2025.
January 2021
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From prison to a better life
27 January 2021
Sergio was arrested and jailed in Madagascar when he was 16 for stealing vanilla. Thanks to vocational training he’s learned to be a bricklayer and no longer engages in petty crime. Read his story on our new Voices multimedia platform.
November 2020
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Slow COVID-19 labour market recovery expected in Latin America and the Caribbean
10 November 2020
The pandemic has led to the biggest contraction in the region in the last 100 years, with 47 million jobs lost across the region in the second quarter of 2020.
August 2020
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#MyFutureofWork
Young people and their look to a future that is #postCOVID in Latin America and the Caribbean. What comes after the crisis? The International Labour Organization (ILO) is calling for an urgent conversation: we want to hear youth voices through social media and invite them to a large virtual meeting on August 12.
July 2020
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Skills for a Resilient Youth in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
20 July 2020
The World Youth Skills Day 2020 took stock of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on skills development and explored how young people can respond to the economic crisis.